"Surreal" is the seventeenth single by Ayumi Hamasaki,
released on September 27, 2000. September also saw the release of
her third full-length album Duty. Duty, like her
previous studio albums, topped the charts and went on to sell over
two million copies. On the same day, the single "Surreal" was
released, which was an initial pressings only single, and it also
topped the charts like Duty, making Hamasaki the fourth
artist following Seiko Matsuda, KinKi Kids, and Wands to have a single and album top the
charts on the same week. With the release of Ayumi Hamasaki Concert
Tour 2000 A 第1幕 topping the DVD charts, it gave her the record of
being the first artist to top three charts on the same week.